I saw this wonderful penn and teller clip today:
Though it makes you laugh, it also make you think; Are we turning the fight for environment into a witch hunt. Are we blindly running after everything, barking like blind rabid dogs? I'm not saying that we don't have the cause to worry, or that we shouldn't act.
But this demonstration in my town today demonstrates how the road to hell is paved with good intentions.
Gothenburg has an ongoing project, "Christmas town Gothenburg" and basically, that is, lighting up the central parts of Gothenburg like a Christmas tree. So this group of people decides that the best way to work for environment is to go down to the main road and stop traffic for five minutes.
Not to make cutbacks on the Christmas lights, but to make hundred of angry drivers get stuck in traffic while blocking the main road for the towns emergency vehicles.
Does anyone seriously think an action like that would have any good, long or short term affects on the environment?
We are running the risk of turning from behaving like aware consumers into acting like a mob for the environmental cause.
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